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San Quentin Arts Project Exhibition at SFPL
If you’re in San Francisco, check out the San Francisco Public Library’s exhibition of art from the San Quentin Arts Project. See art by inmates ranging from “renaissance-style portraits in oils” to “a San Quentin cell to scale created from…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #192
CIGARETTE$ 4 GOLD ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Cigarette$ 4 Gold.
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Nick Cave Monday #46: “Loverman”
There is a sexy beast waiting to rip your clothes off. He’s dealing with a Devil inside because he’s a man with sexual urges. “Loverman” was released on the 1994 record “Let Love In.” We’re Devils in the sack and…
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Discussing Zealot without Zealotry
You may have seen, over the weekend, an exceedingly squirm-worthy video in which a Fox News correspondent grills religious historian and scholar Reza Aslan about why he’s written a book about Jesus despite being Muslim (completely ignoring his credentials, not…
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Notable New York: 07/29-08/04
MONDAY 07.29 Join the Mystery Writers of America for a reading featuring Annamaria Alfieri, Kevin Egan, Clare Toohey, Kate Lincoln, Susan Olsen, Cathi Stoler and Sheila York. KGB Bar, 7pm, free. TUESDAY 07.30 Birds, LLC hosts a reading featuring Dan…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Hungry for some good times? Feast on this weekend Rump! In Saturday’s interview, Matthew Specktor takes some time to talk with the Rumpus about his latest novel, American Dream Machine. He comments on the “dude-heaviness” of the book and voices…
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Writing and Drinking and Writing about Drinking
Alcohol and authors. It’s a subject so old and rich and fraught you could write a book on it—which is exactly what Olivia Laing did. That book is called The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink, and Blake Morrison’s review…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is on tour with his band for the next three plus weeks, but fear not: We’ll still be serving up your morning coffee. A very, very close look at ink, oil, and soap. A very, very tall tower of…
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Notable Los Angeles: 7/27-8/2
Saturday 7/27: FAT GIRL discussion and book signing with Carlos Batts and April Flores. 3 p.m. at the Ahmanson Auditorium at MOCA Grand Avenue. Susan Choi reads from her most recent book My Education. 5 p.m. at Skylight Books. Launch…
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Links I Like
I’m rereading Tom Kealy’s The Creative Writing MFA Handbook, which means I’m thinking of applying to graduate school. When I was in San Francisco, I met Tom Kealy and would run into him from time to time in the Mission…
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Matthew Specktor
Matthew Specktor spent the better part of a year writing one of the most captivating novels about Los Angeles that I’ve read. I know I’m not alone in this assessment.
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Is the Caine Prize Controversy Overblown?
Last week, we wrote about the imbroglio surrounding Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s dismissive remarks about the prestigious Caine Prize: “I haven’t even read the stories—I’m just not very interested,” she said in an interview. “I don’t go to the Caine Prize…